Melanie Griffith - Biography - IMDb Melanie Griffith Biography Showing all 74 items Jump to: Overview (3) | Mini Bio (1) | Spouse (4) | Trade Mark (4) | Trivia (47) | Personal Quotes (12) | Salary (3) Overview (3) 5' 9¼" (1.76 m) Mini Bio (1) Melanie Griffith was born on August 9, 1957 in New York City, to then model/future actress Tippi Hedren and former child actor turned advertising executive Peter Griffith . Her parents' marriage ended in 1961 and Tippi brought Melanie to Los Angeles to get a new start. Tippi caught the eye of the great director Alfred Hitchcock , who gave her starring roles in The Birds (1963) and Marnie (1964). She married her then-agent, Noel Marshall , in 1964 (they divorced in 1982), and Melanie grew up with three stepbrothers. Meanwhile, her father married Nanita Greene Samuels and had two more children: Tracy Griffith and Clay A. Griffith .

Melanie also grew up with tigers and lions, as Tippi and Noel were raising them for the movie Roar (1981), in which the family later starred. Melanie's acting career, however, began as a model at just nine months old in a commercial and she later appeared as an extra in Smith! (1969) and The Harrad Experiment (1973), where she fell in love with her mother's co-star, Don Johnson . She was only 14 years old, while he was a twice-divorced 22-year-old. Tippi took a very liberal approach and allowed Melanie to move in with Don at a tender age. Even though Melanie didn't like modeling, she continued to do it to pay the bills. One day she went to meet with director Arthur Penn for what she thought was a modeling assignment. It was actually an audition for his film Night Moves (1975), and Penn gave her the role of a runaway nymphet. She was hesitant, but Johnson encouraged her to take the role. She agreed but was terrified of performing in front of the camera.

Penn took a paternal interest in her, and she felt confident and gave a riveting performance, doing racy nude scenes. It immediately typecast her and led to more nymphet roles, with her beautiful nude body a permanent fixture in movies like Ha-Gan (1977) and Joyride (1977). She also married Johnson, in Las Vegas in 1976, but the union ended within six months, possibly because her early movie success outshone his. Unfortunately, as her career progressed, she became increasingly dependent on drugs and alcohol, a fact well-known to studio executives, who stopped considering her for feature film roles. She started doing television work, where she met her second husband, Steven Bauer , on the set of the TV movie She's in the Army Now (1981). He helped her to overcome her drug and alcohol problems and got her to take acting classes with Stella Adler in New York. The classes paid off, as director Brian De Palma cast her as a porno actress in his murder mystery Body Double (1984) and her sexy, funny performance won her rave reviews and the Best Supporting Actress Award by the National Society of Film Critics and a Golden Globe nomination.

Jonathan Demme was so impressed with her performance that he gave her the female lead in Something Wild (1986) without even auditioning her. The film became a cult favorite, with Melanie again getting critical plaudits and a Golden Globe nomination. The birth of her first child, Alexander, in 1985, didn't help to save her struggling marriage, and she and Bauer divorced shortly thereafter. She was given starring roles in Cherry 2000 (1987) and Stormy Monday (1988), but the films were barely released. Soon writers were asking when the public at large was going to take notice of this talented and unique actress. Melanie's career skyrocketed when Mike Nichols cast her as a spunky secretary named Tess McGill in Working Girl (1988), a box-office hit for which she received an Oscar nomination as Best Actress and won the Golden Globe Award as Best Actress in a Comedy. Behind the scenes, however, her ongoing substance abuse had become problematic, and Nichols pushed her into a rehabilitation clinic after production wrapped. En route to the clinic she called ex-husband Johnson for support, and they reconciled after her release from the clinic.

She got pregnant and remarried Johnson in 1989, and later that year their daughter Dakota Johnson was born. A sober Melanie now concentrated on her film career, but the two-year absence after Working Girl (1988) took a toll, since younger actresses ( Julia Roberts , Michelle Pfeiffer , Demi Moore , Meg Ryan , Jodie Foster (to whom Melanie lost the Oscar to)) became bankable stars, and there was stiff competition for the good roles. The films Melanie chose usually flopped badly, such as The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990), which reunited her with director Brian De Palma . Even though she gave heartfelt performances in all her films, she was often miscast, with her breathy little-girl voice not helping matters in her role as a spy in Shining Through (1992) and as a homicide detective going undercover in the Hassidic Jewish community in New York City in A Stranger Among Us (1992).

Melanie made a minor comeback with her supporting role as a desperate housewife in Nobody's Fool (1994), which reunited her with Bruce Willis , her co-star in The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990), and Paul Newman , her co-star from The Drowning Pool (1975). She also earned a Golden Globe nomination for her work in the well-received TV miniseries Buffalo Girls (1995), followed by another hit film, the ensemble Now and Then (1995). Her personal life was making headlines again, though, as she left Johnson because of his own substance-abuse problems, reconciled with him briefly when he became sober, only to leave him again, this time for Antonio Banderas , her married co-star from Two Much (1996). Both she and Banderas created a scandal in 1995 with their torrid romance, and the tabloids followed their every move, including her divorce from Johnson and his divorce from wife Ana Leza . Melanie became pregnant with her third child, and she and Banderas married in 1996.

Their daughter Stella Banderas was born the same year, and the notorious couple were forgiven by the public and the media. Melanie won strong reviews in independent films like Another Day in Paradise (1998), where she played a heroin-using criminal accomplice on the run, and the made-for-cable movie RKO 281 (1999), in which she portrayed actress Marion Davies , a part that garnered her Golden Globe and Emmy nominations as Best Supporting Actress. Melanie became dependent to pain killers, however, returning to rehab in 2000. She wrote about her struggle and recovery in her journal on her official website. Greenmoon Productions, the production company that she formed with Banderas, produced several flops, such as her starring vehicle Crazy in Alabama (1999), directed by Banderas. Her career took another blow when her TV series, Me & George (1998), never even aired. After making Cecil B.

DeMented (2000) and Forever Lulu (2000), Melanie did a voice-over role in Stuart Little 2 (2002) and played supporting roles in minor films Tempo (2003), as Sylvester Stallone 's girlfriend in Shade (2003), and as Barbara Marx in The Night We Called It a Day (2003) with Dennis Hopper playing Frank Sinatra , but none of these films made a ripple at the box office. As a result, film and television offers started to dry up. In 2003, a resourceful Melanie turned to the Broadway stage, and packed houses with her turn as the murderess "Roxie Hart" in the musical "Chicago," for which she received a rave review from the New York Times theater critic. It renewed her confidence, as she had never sang, danced or been on the Broadway stage before. In 2005 she surprised viewers by playing a mom to two grown women in the TV series Twins (2005), which was canceled after one season.

She tried to resurrect her career with another attempt at a TV series, Viva Laughlin (2007), but it was canceled after just two episodes. Melanie didn't act again for the remainder of the decade, because, by self-admission, she couldn't obtain any worthwhile roles. In 2009, she was back in rehab after yet another relapse, emerging after a three-month stay. Professionally, she was faced with more disappointment in 2012 when This American Housewife (2012), a Lifetime series that Banderas produced for her to star in, never aired. She went back to the stage in 2012 and played Scott Caan 's mother in a play that he wrote titled "No Way Around but Through." She impressed Caan enough to recommend her to producers of his television show Hawaii Five-0 (2010). Since 2014, she started playing a recurring role as his mother on the show. Also in 2014, Melanie filed for divorce from Banderas citing "irreconcilable differences" after nearly twenty years together.

She never publicly discussed her reasons for the divorce, and she didn't promote her feature film Automata (2014), the final time that she acted with Banderas. It took a year for the divorce to be finalized, during which time, she and Banderas made one important appearance together at their daughter Stella's high school graduation. She also made another public appearance with another ex-husband, Don Johnson, on Saturday Night Live (1975) to support their daughter Dakota, who was the host for that week. Dakota was promoting her star-making turn in Fifty Shades of Grey (2015), thus carrying on the family tradition of being a film actress. Melanie maintains close ties with her three children and her mother Tippi Hedren. She is involved in various charities, including raising funds for Tippi's Shambala preserve, a refuge for wild animals. Melanie also runs a non-profit organization for benefiting burned children. Melanie is single and her children are living on their own. So she has devoted most of her time seeking out acting roles.

- IMDb Mini Biography By: Ramstep Spouse (4) Voluptuous figure Trivia (47) Her mother, Tippi Hedren , recently stated that the miniature doll of Hedren given to Melanie by Alfred Hitchcock was not intended to be a prank by the director. He merely wanted to give Melanie a beautiful doll with her mother's image, but it happened that the doll was in a wooden box. When Melanie received the gift, she freaked out and became upset thinking that it was indeed meant to be her mother in a coffin. Born at 11:49pm-EDT Daughter of Peter Griffith and Tippi Hedren . 14 November 2000 - checked into a Marina Del Rey, California hospital to help her scale back on the use of painkillers she had been prescribed for a neck injury. In 1980, she went to a movie and dinner with Ricci Martin (son of Dean Martin ). Upon leaving La Dome, a restaurant on Sunset Boulevard, a car ran through the crosswalk and hit Melanie. The front of the car struck her hip in mid-stride, whiplashing her head back into the windshield.

As the car screeched to a stop, Melanie catapulted more than a dozen feet forward to the curbside, hitting with great force. Melanie was rushed to a hospital. To this day, Melanie still experiences pain from that accident. Real-life daughters Dakota Johnson and Stella Banderas appear as her character's daughters in the film Crazy in Alabama (1999) directed by her husband Antonio Banderas . Her half-sister Tracy Griffith also has a small role in the film. Claims that it was love at first sight when she met her husband Antonio Banderas on the set of Two Much (1996). He had sprinted out of his trailer like a starstruck schoolboy to greet her on her first day on the set. Excited and nervous, the first thing he asked her was how old she was. She cursed, laughed, and then finally answered that she was 37. They stayed together for 19 years. She was unable to star in the stage play "Eden Court" (1985), and in the films The Sheltering Sky (1990) and As Good as It Gets (1997) because of her three pregnancies.

The roles went to Ellen Barkin , Debra Winger , and Helen Hunt (who won an Academy Award), respectively. She has three homes: Los Angeles, Aspen and Marbella, Spain. Coincidentally, she bears the same first name as her mother Tippi Hedren 's character, Melanie Daniels, in The Birds (1963). Was eighteen when she married Don Johnson for the first time. He was eight years older than she, and they met on the set of her mother's film The Harrad Experiment (1973) in the first half of 1972 when she was 14. In 2002, she told Larry King that her best films are: Night Moves (1975), Something Wild (1986), Working Girl (1988), and Nobody's Fool (1994). Auditioned for the role of Susan in Desperately Seeking Susan (1985), but lost out to Madonna . Her son, Alexander Bauer (born in 1985), is the godson of Warren Beatty .

She first met Beatty a decade earlier when she auditioned for his film The Parallax View (1974). She didn't get the role but their friendship lasted. She is also friends with Beatty's wife Annette Bening and his sister Shirley MacLaine . Her father had English, as well as Irish, Scottish, Welsh, and Northern Irish (Scots-Irish) ancestry. Her mother is of half Swedish, one quarter German, and one quarter Norwegian descent. Goes through two boyfriends in Working Girl (1988). As the film begins, she is in a relationship with Alec Baldwin , but at the end, she is in a relationship with Harrison Ford . Both Baldwin and Ford have played Jack Ryan in adaptations of the Tom Clancy novels. First "Miss Golden Globe" to win a Golden Globe Award herself. Joanne Woodward told a 17-year-old Melanie on the set of The Drowning Pool (1975) that her goals were to marry a movie star ( Paul Newman ); have beautiful babies (she had three); and win an Oscar (which she did in 1958).

Melanie said that she adopted the goals for herself by marrying a movie star ( Antonio Banderas ); have beautiful babies (she also had three); but has expressed frustration that she has not won an Oscar even though she was nominated in 1989. She and her daughter Dakota Johnson are the only mother-daughter couple to be "Miss Golden Globe". While in Washington, D.C. addressing the senate on Arts funding, she fell asleep twice during a speech by her host Michigan Senator Spencer Abraham. She apologized citing jet-lag as her reason for snoozing. Her French dubbing voice Dorothée Jemma is also the French dubbing voice of Sheryl Lee and Jennifer Aniston . Melanie said that fans sometimes confuse her with actress Meg Ryan , whom she admires. She would sign Meg Ryan's name so as not to disappoint the fans. Ryan said the same thing happened to her where fans thought she was Melanie. Checked into the Cirque Lodge in Utah for rehab treatments [August 24, 2009]. Same place where Kirsten Dunst and Lindsay Lohan spent time in recent years. Ex-stepdaughter of Nanita Greene Samuels and Noel Marshall .

In August 2000, she held a live "ChitChat" on her website with Dr. Judith Reichman to discuss her personal efforts to become pregnant. When Reichman told Melanie that smoking is toxic to a woman's ovaries and causes earlier menopause by an average of two years, she replied "I honestly didn't know any of that". Underwent surgery for the early stages of skin cancer in December 2009. Her mother was 22 while her father was only 19 when they married in 1952. In her 2016 memoir, Tippi wrote, that upon reflection, that they were too young to get married. Ex-mother-in-law Ana Banderas was disapproving of Melanie at first, but eventually warmed up to her. In a 2002 interview with More magazine, Melanie admitted giving marijuana to her 16-year-old son Alexander Bauer, because she thought it would be better for him to smoke it at home than to go out on the street and get something that would kill him. Her rationale backfired and she had to put Alexander in a 12-step program. She vowed not to let the same happen to her other children.

Her daughter Dakota Johnson saw a therapist as a teenager, because of emotional issues with her parents, who have battled substance abuse. Has smoked since she was 12 years old. Friends with Anjelica Huston , Daryl Hannah , Demi Moore , Eva Longoria , Jane Fonda , Goldie Hawn , Alana Stewart , Kris Jenner , Sandra Bernhard , Jamie Lee Curtis , Sharon Stone , Rosie O'Donnell , Diane Lane and Salma Hayek . One of her mentors was Bob Fosse . He considered casting her in his film Star 80 (1983) but instead chose Mariel Hemingway to play the slain actress Dorothy Stratten . Directed by eight Academy Award winners: Jonathan Demme , Robert Redford , Mike Nichols , Tony Richardson , John Schlesinger , Sidney Lumet , Robert Benton , and Woody Allen . Gave birth to her 1st child at age 28, a son Alexander Griffith Bauer on August 22, 1985. Child's father is her now ex-2nd husband, Steven Bauer .

Gave birth to her 2nd child at age 32, a daughter Dakota Mayi Johnson (aka Dakota Johnson ) on October 4, 1989. Child's father is now ex-3rd husband, Don Johnson . Gave birth to her 3rd child at age 39, a daughter Stella del Carmen Banderas Griffith (aka Stella Banderas ) on September 24, 1996. Child's father is her now estranged 4th husband, Antonio Banderas . (June 6, 2014) Filed for divorce from her 4th husband of 18 years Antonio Banderas . She stays on good terms with her ex-husbands ( Steven Bauer , Don Johnson , and Antonio Banderas ), since they share children together (Alexander Bauer, Dakota Johnson , Stella Banderas ). She attends events with them and posts pictures on her twitter and instagram accounts with flattering captions calling them "handsome". Some of the films that she considered acting in never came to fruition: projects with her then-husband Don Johnson ("The Friendly" (1991) and film adaptation of Dean R.

Koontz novel "The Bad Place" (1990)) ; "Jane" (1997) with Howard Stern ; film adaptation of the J.M. Barrie play 'Mary Rose'' in 2000, that Alfred Hitchcock also considered casting her mother Tippi Hedren in 1964; and "Mrs. California" (1993). In her divorce settlement with Antonio Banderas , she got the house in Aspen and they sold their L.A. mansion and split the profits. Melanie receives $65,000 monthly spousal support from Antonio. $75,000 was taken out of her paycheck for Working Girl (1988) when she showed up to the set intoxicated and unable to say her lines coherently. The money was used to fund the reshoot of that day's scenes. Ex-stepmother of Jesse Johnson . By her own admission, she drank alcohol when she was ten. Her father Peter Griffith was an alcoholic, as was his father. Her childhood friend is Patricia Nedd , known as Patsy.

Melanie backed out of her family's film Roar (1981) because she was afraid that one of the big cats might hurt her. So her real-life mother Tippi Hedren cast Patsy in Melanie's role and shot several scenes. Then, Melanie changed her mind and decided that she wanted her old role back. Tippi and her then-husband Noel Marshall replaced Patsy and re-shot her scenes with Melanie. Melanie did get hurt in the film and had to have reconstruction surgery. But she came back and finished the film. She recalled auditioning for director Adrian Lyne unsuccessfully twice. The first time was for Flashdance (1983) where she danced in a bikini to the Rolling Stones song "Start Me Up". She lost the role to Jennifer Beals . The second time was for Fatal Attraction (1987), but she lost the role to Glenn Close . Lyne finally selected her for Lolita (1997) for which she didn't even audition, beating out Dianne Wiest and Cybill Shepherd . Personal Quotes (12) [about her work with James Woods ] It's kind of like being pregnant. You know, you go through the initial joy of it.

Then you go through wanting it to be over. And then you're finished with it and you forget how bad it was. There's a bit of a stripper in every woman. I don't walk around with fear. I walk around with strength. I believe in cause and effect. I don't think I'm beautiful. When I look in the mirror, I just see me - and, I'm pretty used to me. Antonio [husband Antonio Banderas ] is the best. He is compassionate and humble. Angelina Jolie may get him [husband Antonio Banderas ] in bed for eight hours on a movie set, but I get him in bed every day. [on being typed as a sex symbol] I hope not! I don't want to be -- I've done enough parts like that. I can't say I won't do more, but I really want to do a variety of roles. I would just like to be able to give to people through acting. If I can entertain people by being somebody else and allow somebody to feel something, then that makes me feel good. I like smoking! I mean, God, I quit everything else, can't I smoke?

[on researching the Holocaust for her film, Shining Through (1992)] I didn't know that 6 million Jews were killed. That's a lot of people... until I started researching the movie I didn't know it was that many people. I thought it was like in the hundreds of thousands. I didn't realize it was 6 million people. What I was trying to say was I think a lot of people don't know it was that severe. I wasn't born during the war. I was born in '57... but I think a lot of people don't know. [on Bruce Willis ] I think he's pretty damn near perfect except for the Republican thing. [on being hit by a car at 23] God's way of telling me to slow down. Salary (3) Melanie Griffith And Tippi Hedren Have A Precious Mother Daughter Moment (PHOTO) | The Huffington Post Melanie Griffith And Tippi Hedren Have A Precious Mother Daughter Moment (PHOTO) 01/28/2013 08:18 am ET | Updated Apr 23, 2013 Michelle Persad Fashion Editor, The Huffington Post.

Some mothers pass down their good looks, others pass along their unique talents and a few give their offspring their charisma. It seems as though Melanie Griffith got all these traits from her mom, Tippi Hedren . Both Hedren and Mrs. Antonio Banderas are famous actress' who have taken Hollywood by storm, winning Golden Globes for their performances on the big screen. The mother-daughter duo not only have skills when it comes to acting, but they both have a great sense of style that can rival just about anyone. In this 1966 photograph we see the pair sporting gorgeous '60s dresses. Melanie wears a paisley shift dress , while her mother dons a long-sleeved lace number. Although this photograph was taken over 45 years ago, both looks are still very much in fashion. It seems as though shiny locks are another genetic trait they share, as both ladies could walk right into a shampoo commercial. We wonder what their secret is? Getty Images/Max B.

Miller Tippi Hedren - Biography - IMDb Tippi Hedren Biography Showing all 72 items Jump to: Overview (3) | Mini Bio (1) | Spouse (3) | Trade Mark (3) | Trivia (47) | Personal Quotes (13) | Salary (2) Overview (3) 5' 4" (1.63 m) Mini Bio (1) Tippi Hedren was born Nathalie Kay Hedren in New Ulm, Minnesota, to Dorothea Henrietta (Eckhardt) and Bernard Carl Hedren, who ran a general store. Her father was of Swedish descent and her mother was of German and Norwegian ancestry. Tippi was working as a New York fashion model when she married her first husband, Peter Griffith , in 1952. They had a daughter, Melanie Griffith , on August 9, 1957. After the marriage ended in 1961, Tippi moved to California and was discovered by legendary director Alfred Hitchcock . He put her under personal contract and cast her in The Birds (1963). Her performance in the film earned her a Golden Globe for Most Promising Newcomer.

Her second film was Hitchcock's Marnie (1964), where she played a challenging and difficult role of a frigid, habitual thief opposite Sean Connery . The professional relationship with Hitchcock ended with mutual bitterness and disappointment towards the end of shooting, and that year she married her then-agent, Noel Marshall . Tippi and her husband Marshall collected big cats and other wildlife for the film Roar (1981), which they starred in and produced. The film took 11 years and $17 million to make, but it only made $2 million worldwide. Nevertheless, the film was a turning point in her life; she became actively involved in animal rights, as well as a wide variety of humanitarian and environmental causes. Her marriage to Marshall ended in 1982, and in 1985 she married her third husband, businessman Luis Barrenechea. They divorced in 1995. Tippi has devoted much time and effort to charitable causes: she is a volunteer International Relief Coordinator for "Food for the Hungry".

She has traveled worldwide to set up relief programs following earthquakes, hurricanes, famine and war, and has received numerous awards for her efforts, including the "Humanitarian Award" presented to her by the Baha'i Faith. As for animal causes, she is founder and President of "The Roar Foundation". Onscreen, she continues to work frequently in films, theater and TV. She appeared in I Woke Up Early the Day I Died (1998), finally bringing to the big screen the last screenplay written by the late Edward D. Wood Jr. in 1974 (and featuring Wood regulars Maila Nurmi and Conrad Brooks , just about the only surviving members of Wood's stock company). She also enjoyed playing comedic roles, such as an abortion rights activist in Alexander Payne 's satire Citizen Ruth (1996) and slapping Jude Law in I Heart Huckabees (2004). Tippi's contributions to world cinema have been honored with Life Achievement awards in France at The Beauvais Film Festival Cinemalia 1994; in Spain, by The Fundacion Municipal De Cine in 1995; and at the Riverside International Film Festival in 2007.

In 1999, Tippi was honored as "Woman of Vision" by Women in Film and Video in Washington, D.C., and received the Presidential Medal for her work in film from Hofstra University. - IMDb Mini Biography By: kdhaisch@aol.com Spouse (3) An unaffected, icy mid-period "Hitchcock blond" Voluptuous figure Deep sultry voice Trivia (47) At the end of shooting Mister Kingstreet's War (1971), she discovered that the big cats used in the production had no place to go and would likely languish in small cages. This prompted her to obtain a parcel of land on her own to establish a home with a natural setting for retired big cats. She named it Shambala and it exists to this day. Gave birth to her only child at age 27, a daughter Melanie Griffith on August 9, 1957. Child's father was her 1st ex-husband, Peter Griffith . Presides over The Roar Foundation, an animal preserve outside of Los Angeles. Director Alfred Hitchcock unsuccessfully pursued a relationship with her during the filming of Marnie (1964).

Tried to be a vegetarian but it didn't work out for her. She named one of her housecats after Sean Connery , her co-star in Marnie (1964). Lobbying for passage of Shambala Wild Animal Protection Act. Participated in panel at University of Illinois on "Hitchcock, Women and Terror", October 2001. Her first television commercial was for a cigarette brand in the early 1950s. She learned to smoke for the commercial, because she felt viewers would know if she was faking it. Her smoking habit lasted for 15 years until her daughter, actress Melanie Griffith , then 10 years old, came to her after a school health lecture and begged her to stop. Received a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 7060 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on January 30, 2003. Alfred Hitchcock saw her in a 1962 commercial aired during the Today (1952) show and cast her in The Birds (1963).

In the commercial for a diet drink, she is seen walking down a street and a man whistles at her slim, attractive figure, and she turns her head with an acknowledging smile. In the opening scene of The Birds (1963), the same thing happens as she walks toward the bird shop. This was an inside joke by Hitchcock. Former mother-in-law of Steven Bauer , Don Johnson and Antonio Banderas . Operates an exotic animal sanctuary which prompted her testimony in February 2005 in Riverside Superior Court. Hedren made a complaint regarding animal cruelty by a tiger rescuer and was told by U.S. Department of Agriculture that there were not enough inspectors to respond to her complaint. She eventually made room for a lion rather than have it go to the rescuer. She stated she felt like she was walking through a trash dump. Her store owner father, Bernard Hedren, was of Swedish descent, and her school teacher mother, Dorathea (Eckhardt), was of half German and half Norwegian ancestry. Friend of Linda Blair , Rod Taylor and Diane McBain .

She met with Alfred Hitchcock and his wife Alma Reville for the final time in London, England, in 1966, while she was filming Charles Chaplin 's last film, A Countess from Hong Kong (1967). They took her to tea at Claridge's. The atmosphere was tense because she knew Hitchcock was upset that she had been cast in what was expected to be a big film, and he was unable to hide his bitterness. Her performance as Melanie Daniels in The Birds (1963) is ranked #86 on Premiere Magazine's 100 Greatest Movie Characters of All Time. British neo-progressive band Landmarq have a song titled "Tippi Hedren" on their 1992 album "Solitary Witness". Attended Suzanne Pleshette 's funeral in 2008. They starred together in The Birds (1963). One of her favorite sweet treats is Marnie's red velvet cake, which she named after her character from the film of the same name Marnie (1964).

She graciously provided the recipe for this three-layer cake to a website called high-societea.com, which specializes in articles on tea and accompanying treats. Requested director Alfred Hitchcock to give her the fur coat that she wore in The Birds (1963), and he graciously gave it to her but charged it to the production company. Eventually, she stopped wearing fur after she became an animal rights activist. Found it touching when Sean Connery , her leading man from Marnie (1964), publicly said that she was underrated while almost everyone in Hollywood was overrated. Of all her films, Marnie (1964) continues to be her favorite film, because of the complex title character. This is even more telling, considering all the problems that reportedly took place during the filming, which spelled the end of her professional relationship with the film's director Alfred Hitchcock , as well as the mixed critical reception and the indifferent box office results upon the film's release.

In most of her films (and in all of her films before 1982 except Tiger by the Tail (1970), her character's name starts with an M: "Melanie Daniels" in The Birds (1963), "Marnie Edgar" in Marnie (1964), "Martha Mears" in A Countess from Hong Kong (1967), "Marla Oaks" in Satan's Harvest (1970), "Mary Kingstreet" in Mister Kingstreet's War (1971), "Margaret Tenhausen" in The Harrad Experiment (1973), "Madelaine" in Roar (1981), "Marcia Stevens" in Inevitable Grace (1994), "Maylinda Austed" in I Woke Up Early the Day I Died (1998), "Martha" in The Darklings (1999), "Michelle Labner" in Searching for Haizmann (2003), "Mary" in Dark Wolf (2003), "Mary Jane" in I Heart Huckabees (2004), and "Minnie" in Dead Write

 (2007).

Bridget Fonda , who played her daughter in the straight-to-cable film Break Up (1998), gushed to her about how she had watched Marnie (1964) "a million times". She was supposed to play the leads in Bedtime Story (1964) (opposite David Niven and Marlon Brando ), Mirage (1965) (opposite Gregory Peck and Walter Matthau ), and Fahrenheit 451 (1966) (opposite Oskar Werner ), but Hitchcock told the directors and producers that she wasn't available to work with them. Shirley Jones , Diane Baker , and Julie Christie eventually played the parts she was considered for. Actress Sienna Miller portrayed her in the cable movie, The Girl (2012), which dealt with Tippi's three years with Alfred Hitchcock . She told Miller to portray her as strong, since she rejected Hitchcock's advances, even though it meant the end of her career as a leading lady. She said she was happy with Miller's portrayal. Met President John F. Kennedy once, when he was on vacation, as she was, in the South of France.

In her memoir, she claimed that he wanted to spend the night with her, but she declined, since they were both married to other people. Several years later, she was driving to her horse-riding lesson in preparation for her role in Marnie (1964), when she learned about the President's assassination. She said that she was "stunned, and very angry", that the assassination could have happened. Is a fan of actor Johnny Depp and named one of her house cats after him. Even though, she hasn't met him, her then son-in-law Antonio Banderas acted with him in Once Upon a Time in Mexico (2003), and her grand daughter Dakota Johnson appeared in two films with him, 21 Jump Street (2012) and Black Mass (2015). She turned down the starring role in Eye of the Cat (1969) which was later played by Gayle Hunnicutt . In the biographical movie The Girl (2012), Tippi (played by Sienna Miller ) explained to Alfred Hitchcock (played by Toby Jones ) that "Tippi" is a nickname for "Tupsa", meaning "little girl" or "sweetheart".

Was directed by 5 Academy Awards winners: Alfred Hitchcock (he won the Irving Thalberg Memorial Award, thus qualifying him as an Academy Award winner); Charles Chaplin , John Schlesinger , Alexander Payne and Billy Bob Thornton (he left her scenes on the cutting room floor in Jayne Mansfield's Car (2012)). Dropped out of the film House of Good and Evil (2013) at the last minute because of illness. Her part was recast with actress Marietta Marich . Director Sean Baker considered casting Tippi and her real-life granddaughter Dakota Johnson together in his film Starlet (2012) before deciding on Besedka Johnson and Dree Hemingway . The media commonly misreported her birth year as 1935 even though she was actually born in 1930. What makes it puzzling is that there was always direct evidence to prove her correct age, since she looked like a nineteen-year-old, not a fourteen-year-old in her very first film The Petty Girl (1950) and in 1964, Time magazine accurately reported her age as 34, not 29.

After she publicly celebrated her 75th birthday in 2005, since then all the media outlets started accurately reporting her age. The June 11, 1969, and also Aug. 20, editions of Variety, in its Hollywood Production Pulse column, shows Tippi Hedren starring with Richard Crenna and Robert Conrad in the movie Seven Against Kansas, directed by David Friedkin, which started filming June 10, 1969, in Almeria, Spain. No evidence if the film was ever completed. Aunt of Robert Hanzlik (b. October 8, 1954) via her sister Patty. She turned down a cameo role in The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990) that starred her daughter Melanie Griffith , because she had just done a cameo role in another film of Melanie's titled Pacific Heights (1990), and she didn't want to appear in all of her daughter's films, only on special occasion. Younger sister of Patricia "Patty" Davis (b. March 31, 1926), who gave birth to five children of her own.

She named one of them Tipper, in honor of Tippi. Daughter of Bernard (June 13, 1893-April 1, 1979) and Dorothea (née Eckhardt) Hedren (July 14, 1899-October 30, 1994). Both were born and raised in Minnesota. In her memoir, she claimed that Marlon Brando wanted to have an affair with her during A Countess from Hong Kong (1967), but she turned him down, since she was married. She wrote that he didn't hold the rejection against her. Many years later, she named one of her house cats after him.

She claims that she never had affairs with her leading men, even though they were hot and sexy, such as Sean Connery , Marlon Brando , Burt Reynolds , Michael Keaton , Mark Harmon , Jude Law , Leslie Nielsen , Rod Taylor , Ben Gazzara , Fernando Lamas , Don Johnson , Jeffrey Hunter , Lloyd Bochner , Robert Wagner , James Brolin , William Petersen , Christopher George , John Saxon , David McCallum , Bill Bixby , George Montgomery , Ken Howard , and Mahershala Ali . She became friends with writer William Peter Blatty in the early 1970s and named one of her lions Billy after him. He gave her a copy of his unpublished novel "The Exorcist" and she was so absorbed reading it, that she woke up her then-husband, an agent Noel Marshall , in the middle of the night and told him that he should represent Blatty in publishing the novel and the film adaptation. She took the photo of the author for the first edition novel's back jacket.

The 1971 novel became a bestseller and Marshall would be credited as 'Executive Producer' for the film adaptation, also titled The Exorcist (1973), where he was supposed to receive 15% of the profits. When the film became a blockbuster, Blatty refused to give the profits, since he never signed the written contract, but only initiated it. Marshall sued and the lawsuit dragged on for several years eventually reaching an out-of-court settlement. These were trying years for Hedren and Marshall since they needed the money to feed the big cats for their film Roar (1981), the financial stress would result in their divorce. Many years later, Blatty ran into Hedren at a party and said Hi. She walked away from him, without acknowledging him. In her 2016 memoir, she wrote that the executives at Universal wanted to submit her name for Best Actress Oscar for her superb performance in Marnie (1964), but the film's director Alfred Hitchcock blocked it as a retaliatory measure for turning down his sexual advances.

The Academy later awarded Hitchcock an honorary Oscar, and over the years, Hedren's costars from Hitchcock's films and screen-test ( Sean Connery , Jessica Tandy , Martin Balsam ) won Oscars. Yet, the Academy has refused to give Hedren an honorary Oscar, in spite of all her humanitarian work and animal rights activism, suggesting that they remained loyal to Hitchcock, even though he died long ago. Is ambidextrous. She is a Republican. In her 2016 memoir "Tippi", she wrote that President Donald Trump is a celebrity friend. Personal Quotes (13) [on Alfred Hitchcock ] To be the object of somebody's obsession is a really awful feeling when you can't return it. [on 3/1/05, when asked which is her favorite of the Alfred Hitchcock films she starred in] I think Marnie (1964). They were both so different that it's kind of hard to figure out which, but The Birds (1963) was sort of a chase. All of the Hitchcock films have a mystery to them and that sort of thing, but the personality of Marnie was so intriguing.

She was really - poor Marnie. My advice to anyone contemplating acting as a profession is to be independently wealthy or have another vocation as a backup. [ Melanie Griffith ] and [ Antonio Banderas ] are well set, but most actors make a pittance. For years, directors and producers came up to me and said they'd wanted me for a role, but [ Alfred Hitchcock ] wouldn't allow it. The worst was when I found out that François Truffaut had wanted to cast me. I'd never heard a word about it. That one hurt. [on being offered the title role in Marnie (1964) by Alfred Hitchcock ] I was stunned. I was amazed that he would offer me this incredible role and that he would have that kind of faith in me . . . I thought Marnie was an extremely interesting role to play and a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. [on working with Sean Connery , her leading man in Marnie (1964)] He was just fabulous, a consummate actor with a great sense of humor. He was practicing his golf swing all the time - a rather profound golfer.

We honored him on June 8, 2006, at the American Film Institute. They asked me to speak about him, which was great fun. It was one of the most wonderful evenings. It is interesting because some of the critics who really panned [ Marnie (1964)] when it came out see it again and it is like they are reviewing an entirely different movie. I think a lot of it was that all those years ago, people were not aware of how a trauma being inflicted upon a child can affect what happens to them as an adult if it isn't properly dealt with. I think there were multiple reasons why they didn't like it. For some reason, the painted backdrops really bothered people forty years ago - that was a big deal for some reason with the critics. I kept thinking "So what, it's a movie!" [In 2006, when asked whether she can watch The Birds (1963) and Marnie (1964) and separate herself from the experience of making them] I can do that now and it is quite a relief, actually.

I can look at it and think "She did a good job!" There were years where I would see things and wish I could do them over but now I can just watch them. They called and asked what I thought about a remake of The Birds (1963) and I thought: 'Why would you do that? Why?' I mean, can't we find new stories, new things to do? When you do a love scene with someone in a movie, you have cameras and lights surrounding you. It's not very romantic, especially considering what I was going through. A lot of people have asked me whether or not I had a fling with Sean Connery during the filming of Marnie (1964), and the answer is no. Marnie was so frigid and cold that she screamed when a man came near her. If I had strong feelings for him in real life, it would have shown through my eyes in the film. I was too dedicated to acting. So, no, I don't really know what it's like to kiss Sean Connery .

[2014, on what it's like being a matriarch of an acting dynasty] It's funny that nobody in of all my ancestors was interested in any of the dramatic arts. None of them. It started with me, then my gorgeous daughter Melanie Griffith , and now my granddaughter Dakota Johnson . Now, we are wondering what my other granddaughter Stella Banderas is going to be doing. She's very cerebral. I would be very anxious to see what happens to her. [on working on the set of The Birds (1963)] One of the ravens was so sweet that Ray [ Ray Berwick ] wouldn't teach him all the bad things to do, like peck people and dive-bomb. That raven became my buddy. He'd come up and sit in my dressing room on the set, play with my makeup, and throw it on the floor. I'd walk around on the set with him on my shoulders. [In 2016] My marriages were all good - until they weren't. But I got something good out of each of them. My first husband Peter Griffith was younger than me and I've never understood why I married him but he gave me Melanie Griffith .

My second husband Noel Marshall gave me my love of animals. My third husband Luis Barrenechea was everything I wanted in a man, except that he was an alcoholic and that was unbearable. I'd love to have a man in my life and to go on dates but I'll never marry again. I like living alone. I'm vain and I'm also selfish. Who would want that in a woman? Salary (2) Who is Dakota Johnson? FacebookEmail Twitter Google+ LinkedIn Pinterest Who is Dakota Johnson? She's just landed the lead female role in the upcoming 'Fifty Shades of Grey' movie, but the casting decision may have left you wondering: Who exactly is Dakota Johnson? Post to Facebook Who is Dakota Johnson? She's just landed the lead female role in the upcoming 'Fifty Shades of Grey' movie, but the casting decision may have left you wondering: Who exactly is Dakota Johnson? Check out this story on USATODAY.com: CancelSend A link has been sent to your friend's email address. Posted! A link has been posted to your Facebook feed. 20 To find out more about Facebook commenting please read the Conversation Guidelines and FAQs Who is Dakota Johnson?

Cindy Clark, USA TODAY Published 6:52 p.m. ET Sept. 2, 2013 | Updated 6:56 p.m. ET Sept. 2, 2013 She's just landed one of the most sought-after roles in Hollywood. In this file picture taken on November 13, 2012 Dakota Johnson poses on arrival for the GQ Men of the Year Party at Chateau Marmont on Sunset Blvd., in Hollywood, Calif. The film version of erotic best-seller 'Fifty Shades of Grey' will star British actor Charlie Hunnam as Christian Grey and Dakota Johnson as Anastasia Steele, the book's author E L James said on Monday. (Photo: Frederic J. Brown/AFP/Getty Images) She's just landed the lead female role in the upcoming Fifty Shades of Grey movie, but the casting decision may have left you wondering: Who exactly is Dakota Johnson? Johnson, who will play Anastasia Steele in the film adaptation of E.L. James' best-selling erotic novel, is the daughter of screen veterans Melanie Griffith and Don Johnson. She's also the granddaughter of the iconic Birds actress Tippi Hedren.

The 23-year-old actress made her film debut in 1999's Crazy in Alabama, in which she and her half-sister, Stella Banderas, played the daughters to their real-life mother, Griffith. The film was directed by Johnson's stepfather, Antonio Banderas. In 2006, she was voted Miss Golden Globe, where she served as the first second-generation Miss Golden Globe -- mom Griffith was also Golden Globe royalty back in the day. That same year, Johnson signed with IMG Models and was the face of MANGO jeans in 2009. In 2010, Johnson had a small role in The Social Network. Remember the scene where Napster founder Sean Parker -- played famously by Justin Timberlake -- has a one-night stand with a college student? That was Johnson. Johnson's other film credits include Beastly, The Five-Year Engagement and 21 Jump Street. She also starred as Kate in the 2012-13 Fox comedy series Ben and Kate (the show was canceled after one season). She is currently shooting a new adaptation of Cymbeline. In October, Johnson told USA TODAY that she always knew she wanted to be an actor.

"This is my passion. This is my job. I love it more than anything," said Johnson. "I'm so happy when I'm working. I love doing improv. I love comedy. I have always felt this way, even when I was really young. I'd watch my parents work and think, yeah, I'm going to do that. It wasn't even a thing. It's the only thing I know how to do." As for her personal life, Johnson said she's "more of a person who goes with the flow of things. I have a boyfriend that I've been with for a while. I've only been in long-term relationships. I've never really dated myself." Johnson will star opposite Charlie Hunnam, who will play Christian Grey in the film adaptation of Fifty Shades of Grey. It's set to steam up theaters Aug. 1, 2014. 671 CONNECT TWEET LINKEDIN 20 COMMENTEMAILMORE Read or Share this story: NEVER MISS OUT Life Be a pop culture maven. Get the news, reviews and the juiciest celebrity stories that keep you in the know, Monday-Friday.

Question: Who is the actress mother of Melanie Griffith?
Answer: Tippi Hedren